A comprehensive introduction to Transactional Analysis theory, practice and evidence-base. It provides a step by step manual to the competencies and skills needed across the therapy process, and a guide to working with a variety of client issues.

The textbook for anyone learning to become a coach. It's written for beginner coaches and focuses on the main coaching skills and competencies, such as listening, asking powerful questions, providing feedback, summarising and challenging, self awareness and self-reflection.

Improvisation plays a key role in the toolbox of the music therapist. This guide will prove indispensable to students/teachers/therapists/musicians as a book of musical techniques and therapeutic methods. Notated examples allow readers to try out techniques as they read, with audio examples on the accompanying downloadable content.

This book is an undergraduate textbook that provides a synthesis of the major topics in sport psychology, with an applied focus and an emphasis on achieving optimal performance.

A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions - engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning - to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schön maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on the kind of improvisation learned in practice. This unarticulated, largely unexamined process ...

Words play such a big role in our lives. They influence what we think and feel in the moment; an unexpected compliment cheers us up, whilst angry words can spoil our day. Words can have long term consequences; what’s being said can lead us to file for divorce, push us to go to war, give us the courage to start a new education or choose a new career path. Unlike many other things in life that we have less control over, we can choose our own words. In doing so we shape our lives, as well as t...

Happy Life 365 by Kelly Weekers – a successful entrepreneur, psychologist and former model – is about acquiring a no-nonsense mindset for a joyous life. Broaching topics like self-confidence, health, friendships, work, relationships and social media, Kelly shares her simple and effective strategies for better ways to handle negativity, stress and worries. It’s a straightforward,light read about how to create joy by letting go of things outside your sphere of influence and taking control...

E-Prime® is the leading software suite by Psychology Software Tools for designing and running Psychology lab experiments. 'The E-Primer' is the perfect accompanying guide: It provides all the necessary knowledge to make E-Prime accessible to everyone. You can learn the tools of Psychological science by following the E-Primer through a series of entertaining, step-by-step recipes that recreate classic experiments. The updated 'E-Primer' expands its proven combination of simple explanations, i...

When people are faced with cancer, fear is common. After the initial shock of diagnosis and medical treatment, people want to pick up their life again. This is not always easy. Fear of cancer recurrence and fear of cancer progression can have a strong impact on life, even when there is a good medical prognosis. It is understood that worry and anxiety is normal, but not many people know what you can do about it.In this book you will find a 5-step program that will guide you. You will be learni...